"City Without Rain": Iron condensation, extramarital affair is a rain, after nothing has changed
The story begins with a red high heel, which Silver sees on his way out of school, but when he takes it home, he is unexpectedly reprimanded by his father, Bai Jiehe. Bai's hatred for shoes stems from his unfortunate past, Bai Hashe, who works in a shoe factory, runs away with a shoe merchant collaborator from Italy, and he transfers his dislike for people to the shoes. So when we see Bai Jihe swinging his axe at the high heels that the silver picked up, it is not difficult to understand why a shoe picked up from the garbage can cause him so much anger.
In the cut sole, Bai Hashe found a negative, so it is not so much a "blood case" caused by a high heel as a "blood case" caused by a negative. Bai Jihe looked around at his miserable life, and compared with pu Yunzhe, the deputy mayor who was holding a woman in his arms in the negative, the sense of imbalance in his heart burned up desperately. He decided to use the negative to change his life.
The "blood case" is my own imagination, Bai Jihe's extortion can only achieve initial success, the torrent of his desire will inevitably attract the disgust of Pu Yunzhe in the end, under the troubles of extramarital affairs, money, power, status and other factors, Pu Yunzhe and Bai Jihe will inevitably fight in a dark and windy night of a month, in a deserted field, a person fell, a person left. But that's just what I thought.
Hua Luogeng said that when he reads a book, he first reads the beginning, then closes the book and meditates, and if the result matches his imagination, the book can not be read again. Tie Ning's "City Without Rain" did not develop according to my own imagination, but I think the value of this novel does not lie in the development of the storyline. Perhaps, as Tie Ning said, the novel exercised her structural training in writing.
The appearance of high heels gave me great interest and expectations, and I went back to their stories with the two characters in the negatives, and in a place called Changye City, a mayor named Pu Yunzhe and a reporter named Tao Youjia developed an extramarital affair. The process of extramarital affairs from the beginning to the calm, to the crisis, to the breakdown, such a process in turn is the state of the relationship between Pu Yunzhe and the original Ge Peiyun. Extramarital and marital are always a pair of contradictory and complementary relationships, one that goes wrong, one that is happy and the other.
Tie Ning seems to have deliberately maintained a restrained mentality in telling the story, and whenever the climax comes, the story may develop towards a more intense place, but in the end the author always chooses a form that is still quite alarming but already much calmer. For example, in the section of Xixian County, Tao Youjia took off all her clothes and climbed onto the stone, and in the bright moonlight, in the dark wilderness, she read the poem she wrote to Pu Yunzhe: If I occupy you, but your heart is no longer here, then why should I occupy it?
At this time, in order to change from acting mayor to the real mayor of Changye City, Pu Yunzhe has distanced himself from Tao Youjia, and Tao Youjia cannot forget such a love. When Pu Yunzhe went to Xixian for a meeting, Tao Youjia desperately followed him here and drove Pu Yunzhe to such a quiet and deserted field. When Tao Youjia adjusted the speed of the car faster and faster, I thought that she would use the price of her life to save or half a point of love that could only be hidden behind people. But she didn't.
The end of the novel surprised me, because I had always thought that such a relationship must end in a bloody way. It seems that true feelings, only after paying the price of blood, can we see its shocking and earth-shattering. After bai has been blackmailed many times with negatives, he feels more and more valuable about the negatives, and clips it in an old book of his daughter Silver, but Silver donates the book to the Hope Project, and the negatives are finally thrown into the stove by the mother of the mountain, emitting a bad smell that the whole family feels, is this iron condensation suggesting that extramarital affairs are disgusting? I'm afraid not.
The title of a rainless city itself indicates an expectation of rain, and also shows that the final result is rainless. Maybe the rain came, but eventually it was gone. Perhaps more accurately understood, the rain is on its way, but it disappears into the seeming but the absence. An affair is a rain, it comes, it goes, leaving such a rainless city, nothing has changed.